Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5fee75c50c5f94a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2021-07-24 04:00:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: 9fafcf24a671803c7911e27e9f8087da SHA-1: e7d82d0eadf05c5b8383e8e7be848822ff30f0f3 SHA-256: 5fee75c50c5f94a52f9d09b810a73f5e17a335edcf07ffe6ef0b6d69d830bc70
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF file was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a phishing or trojan threat. It functions as a link farm, containing numerous URLs pointing to potentially compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, likely intended to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple external URIs and a link farm structure strongly suggests an attempt to lure users to external resources.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9991

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://best-label.com/upload/files/nunuxe.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://orrizon.ru/images/file/zuzosulibatexi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.rockandroll.blog.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6gv02u1bop9rtprqbdr0qku4nt/3191009618.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.federatedlighting.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ea4657dadd095eab54b6745d0a6582c6/40483427584.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://voicelux.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/2ace82c82248c709791c76284a8f8333/55690961031.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://mymovingestimate.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fb483816046323ba56b7848ffc16f457/65363840100.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://greyquotient.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1946b9ebeba1491f1c518d34b5b15888/jisuwasokobimowo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://schmitz.cz/res/file/topagukob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.dolphinrfid.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160c8882d27c12---82936477080.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kissdocs.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d724985fa41---galipeminawelenul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://akdenizokullari.k12.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ro6dp2spg0h6qlb3v3od0uj9hs/98640476404.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://fiberglasssupplydepot.com/userfiles/file/73731824171.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://lllk.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/064fa16a3be77603931f472c364d9c07/34435781225.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://polinagerz.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/rffmqo7armkf8qkp312o9rg9dh/53443024328.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://gchsclassof1970reunion.com/clients/6/6a/6a45fbe13d63dbb0eb8070d7cb9dbc89/File/1783182429.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alexandrapanayotou.com/web/images/static/file/56248870392.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://soudurelauziere.com/upload/editor/file/bomejiwovamunupajodejib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1aca2378a020aedc4cafe9b3e89b8bc3/zusol.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.kzhep.in.ua/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t4c8h8fd4oecr5bvbqee5fivl4/23975257700.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b86252cf899---zisukusuzara.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://izharfoster.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607a8f7d8c291---mipabipitasepibabilipu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fishandcosolicitors.com/uploads/files/dutaxob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://micsys.in/userfiles/file/9993439317.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=tipos+de+teselaciones+semirregularesPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000ea43.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEA43 18636 bytes
SHA-256: 4dc7205d19832a64beb16c1f8e4359c4de343dcc60513a71055ad0fa0d2747c9
font_01_sfnt_off00011a38.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A38 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0001324f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1324F 10920 bytes
SHA-256: 9babbd601d7bbba6c2fe7c44cb8589a84eb4de429c7e11cae922498f17ba1417